Gesture-language posters & prints

Neopolitans gesturing to a Deaf Mute Person; Gesti Mutoloparlanti Napolitani, 1815 Saviero Xavier della Gatta

18th-Century Illustration of Hand Gestures for Counting Anonymous

Dancing farmer, Nicolaes van Lijnhoven Andries Both

Brunette woman knit dress offhand gesture serious expression Anonymous

Seated farmer with a jug, Nicolaes van Lijnhoven Andries Both

Dancing farmer with a sausage, Nicolaes van Lijnhoven Andries Both

1950s Earnest Salesman Talking Gesturing With Hands Anonymous

1930s palm of man's hand gesture of stop halt Anonymous

Hands up Fritz Kock-Gotha

Abbe Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard Teaching Children Sign Language, 1806 Jerome Martin Langlois

A Professor of Strong Languages Alfred Thompson

Conversing by Signs, 1837 Alfred Jacob Miller

Shhhh! George Bernard O'Neill

Meeting between a man and a couple in the outdoors, the man holds a stick and gestures with his hand... Jacob Folkema

1960s smiling brunette young woman hand to cheek facial expression gesture looking at camera Anonymous

1950s 1960s happy smiling blond woman gesturing with hands showing size of something looking at camera Anonymous

Two farmers in conversation Franco Estius

1950s full figure baby sitting gesture hand touching cheek face expression funny Anonymous

1950s woman smiling wearing pearl necklace looking at camera making okay gesture with hand Anonymous

Rhetoric Cornelius I Schut

Men Who Speak Through Gestures, A Man Who Drinks From a Straw, A Man Without a Nose Anonymous

Universal language: the first page of the Bible in Esperanto Anonymous

Desiderius Erasmus, 'Restorer of the Latin language' Dutch School

1930s little girl with finger to lips making quiet gesture looking at camera Anonymous

The Institution of Languages German School

1960s baby surprised facial expression holding telephone hand set over yellow pages phone book directory Anonymous

Andrea Pozzo Italian School

Children taking English lessons in the Forest of Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany Anonymous

Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology Anonymous

Christ standing facing forward, holding a cross with a banner and raising his left …, ca. 1515-27 Marco Dente

Talking Politics Friedrich Friedlander

Jules Grevy Emile Renouf

X-Ray of Hand Doing Peace Sign Anonymous

Lascar Anonymous

Folio from Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds), by Attar, c1600. Habib Allah

Francois-Severin Marcean Gesturing with Hand Anonymous